KOOS - Sing Jy Van Bomme video free download

KOOS was a truly innovative band whose music defined and reflected South Africa's increasingly dark eighties. The band was formed in 1986 by actors Marcel Van Heerden and Gys de Villiers and conceptual artist Neil Goedhals, who were joined by Velile Nxazonke, Megan Kruskal, Christo Boshoff and Kendell Geers. The country's original punk poet Johan van Wyk wrote some of the lyrics.

KOOS was a highly personal reaction to the chaos and despair that had engulfed the country in the mid-eighties. States of emergency, burning townships, murder, bomb attacks and people who 'fell from the ninth floor' of a police station or 'slipped on a piece of soap'. That was the subject matter KOOS sang about in songs like Sing jy van Bomme, Tsafendas and the menacing Suid Afrikaanse Herfs, which referenced the German terrorists of the Rote Armee Faktion.

(source: http://www.onefmusic.com/artists/koos.php)

Song taken from The Black Tape (self-released, 1989 / Sjambok, 2010)

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